The real players will be converted into animated characters in (almost) real time, with Buzz and Woody watching on the sidelines
As announced today in a press release, the October 1 game between the Atlanta Flacons and the Jacksonville Jaguars will be streamed on both ESPN+ and Disney+, with the Disney version being a fully animated live-ish recreation of the game set in the
universe. Using “state-of-the-art tracking technology,” everything that happens in the game will be recreated—with a short delay—in animated form, whilecharacters watch from the sidelines and kid-friendly announcers explain what’s going on. There will even be a halftime show stunt from Duke CToy Story Funday Football - October 1stinteresting if it doesn’t work out and the players just start sliding down the field in T-poses.
Now here’s the real odd thing about all of this: The game is happening in present day, in 2023, but theversion of it is happening specifically on the floor of Andy’s bedroom. The toys don’t live with Andy anymore, so how could this possibly fit within the canon of